(C++) RDTSC by External

Created the Wednesday 22 June 2022. Updated 1 day, 7 hours ago.

Code

            /*
RDSTC is a famous x86 instruction to count the number of cycle since reset.
This can be used to detect the VM. Thanks to Forcepoint for blog article.
*/

#define LODWORD(_qw)    ((DWORD)(_qw))
BOOL rdtsc_diff_locky()
{
	ULONGLONG tsc1;
	ULONGLONG tsc2;
	ULONGLONG tsc3;
	DWORD i = 0;

	// Try this 10 times in case of small fluctuations
	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
	{
		tsc1 = __rdtsc();

		// Waste some cycles - should be faster than CloseHandle on bare metal
		GetProcessHeap();

		tsc2 = __rdtsc();

		// Waste some cycles - slightly longer than GetProcessHeap() on bare metal
		CloseHandle(0);

		tsc3 = __rdtsc();

		// Did it take at least 10 times more CPU cycles to perform CloseHandle than it took to perform GetProcessHeap()?
		if ((LODWORD(tsc3) - LODWORD(tsc2)) / (LODWORD(tsc2) - LODWORD(tsc1)) >= 10)
			return FALSE;
	}

	// We consistently saw a small ratio of difference between GetProcessHeap and CloseHandle execution times
	// so we're probably in a VM!
	return TRUE;
}